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RG 30/65 - David L. Anderson (1919-1996)
Inventory
An asterisk (*) indicates restricted records.

Series I. Biographical Files

Box 1

Autobiographical Correspondence, 1952-1992
Biographical Sketch and Curriculum Vitae, 1973, n.d.
Birthday Songs, n.d.
Clippings, 1945-1980
Estate of Myrtle C. Anderson, 1960-1962, 1974
House Contract, 1950-1952
Kirkwood House Lease, 1961
Los Alamos, 1983
Memorabilia, 1937-1979
Memorial Minute for David L. Anderson, 25 March 1997
Navy Service, 1945-1954 (3f)
Personal Investments, 1946, 1952-1981
Real Property, 1950-52, 1969, 1974, 1984, 1993, n.d.
Retirement, 1982-1984

Series II. Harvard Classroom Records

Box 1

Advisees, 1942-1943
Amplifier Circuits, 1948
Bombardment Chamber Drawings, 1947
Bonds, 1937, 1943
English A, 1937-1938
Graduate School Application, 1941, 1945
Harvard Miscellany, 1940-1947
Mathematics Courses, 1940-1941, 1946 (5f)
Miscellaneous Physics 14, 1939-1941

Box 2

National Research Council Fellowship, 1945-1948
Natural Sciences 1b, 1948
Natural Sciences 2a and 1b, 1948
Physics Courses, 1939-1948 (9f)
Scholarship Applications, ca. 1939-1940
Undergraduate notes, 1937-1940

Box 3

Notebooks, undergraduate, 1939-1941, n.d. (13)

Box 4

Laboratory Reports, 1939-1940 (5f)

Series III. Committee Files

Box 1

American Association of University Professors, Oberlin Chapter, 1944, 1957, 1972
College Faculty Council, 1948-1976 (2f)
Commencement Committee, 1967, 1971-1978 (2f)
Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, 1971-1983
Committee on Grading and Evaluation, 1964-1970
Committee on Honors at Graduation, 1965-1966
Committee on the Status of Women at Oberlin, 1972-1973
Committee on Student Publications, 1952-1966
Committee on Trees, 1956
Co-op Minutes, 1953
Education Commission, 1970-1971
Educational Policy Committee, 1949-1950
Educational Plans and Policies Committee, 1953-1969

Box 2

Educational Plans and Policies Committee, 1969-1984 (3f)
Faculty-Trustee Conference Committee, 1973-1974
General Faculty -- Grievance Procedure, 1971
General Faculty Review Committee, 1973-1984
Joint Social Board (see also Student Life Committee), 1963-1966 (5f)
Mead-Swing Lectureship, ca. 1961-1968 (3f)

Box 3

Mead-Swing Lectureship, 1944-1972 (8f)
Miscellaneous Committees, 1944-1984, n.d.
Oberlin College Teachers' Association, 1973
Oberlin Improvement and Development Company, 1962-1964
Phi Beta Kappa, 1959-1982, n.d.
Search Committee, 1982
Sigma Xi, 1949-1973
Social and Political Concerns Committee, 1969-1970

Box 4

Strike Steering Committee, 1970-1971
Student Affairs Committee, 1945-1966 (6f)
Student Council Bylaws, 1953-1964
Student Educational Policy Committee, 1960-1965
Student Life Committee (see also Joint Social Board), 1960-1967 (11f)
Student Organization Constitutions, 1964-1965

Box 5

Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1959-1972 (5f)

Series IV. Correspondence

Subseries 1. Personal Files

Box 1

Correspondence, 1938-1948 (13f)

Box 2

Correspondence, 1949-1969 (15f)

Box 3

Correspondence, 1970-1993, n.d. (9f)
Airport, 1968
Fixx, Jim, 1958-1959, n.d.
Oppenheimer, Robert, 1957

Subseries 2. Professional Files

Box 1

Correspondence, 1942-1971 (9f)

Box 2

Correspondence, 1972-1985, n.d. (8f)
Alumni, 1962-1967, n.d.
Eyepiece, 1955-1956
Gordon and Breach, 1968, 1972
History of Oberlin College Physics Dept., 1990-1991
Hofstadter, Robert, 1970
Krogdahl, Wasley, 1969-1970
Madden/Source Book in Quantum Theory, 1976-1982, n.d.

Box 3

Misc. Memoranda, 1965-1973 (see also chronologically-ordered
professional correspondence)
Neutron Sources, 1948-1950, n.d.
Nuclear Correspondence, 1950-1955, n.d.
Palmieri, Joseph N., 1968-1969
President, 1949-1985
Smithsonian Institution, 1971
Students, 1958-1986, 1994, n.d.

Subseries 3. Family Files

Box 1

Anderson, Connie, 1979-1986
Anderson, David, to family, 1973, 1982-1984
Anderson, David, to Molly Anderson, 1946-1956
Anderson, Denny, 1948-1974
Anderson (Lahaderne), Jean, 1938-1975
Anderson, Molly, to David Anderson, 1948-1956, n.d.
Anderson, Norm and Bonnie, 1938-1976, n.d.
Anderson, Sam, 1963-1977
Anderson, Steve, 1963-1986
Anderson Family (extended), 1938-1983 (2f)
Mather, Mr. and Mrs. Philip R., 1948-1959
Miscellaneous, 1915, 1977, n.d.

Box 2

Year in England, 1954-1955 (5f)

Box 3

Parents, letters from, 1938-1939 (9f)

Box 4

Parents, letters from, 1940-1941 (9f)

Box 5

Parents, letters from, 1942-1944 (10f)

Box 6

Parents, letters from, 1945-1949 (11f)

Box 7

Parents, letters from, 1949-1955 (11f)

Box 8

Parents, letters from, 1956-1960, n.d. (10f)

Series V. General Files

Subseries 1. Alphabetical Files

Box 1

Books to Order, 1949-1980, n.d.
Faculty Power, 1979-1980
Fermilab, 1980
Foreign Students, 1962-1965
General Education Conference, 1947-1951
History of Science, 1968-1971 (2f)
Important Steps in the Growth of Mechanics, n.d.
International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958
Kenyon Exam, 1959-1960
Leonard's Ph.D., 1952
Mass Spectrograph, 1961
Miscellany, 1939-1971, n.d.
Monograph Series, 1961
Oberlin Co-Op, 1950-1951
Oberlin Profile Study, 1965-1967
Osborne Computer, 1982-1984
Quotes, n.d.

Subseries 2. Name Files

Box 1

Bainbridge, Kenneth T., 1974-1984
Butts, Jeanne, 1978-1979
Denny, Wayne B., 1948-1955
Goldstein, Eugene, 1970-1971
Huston, Hollis, 1967
Klukas, Arnold, 1984
Liu, Chung-heng, 1962
Nzelibe, Joseph, 1958-1986
Palmieri, Joseph N., 1980-1982
Richards, W. Bruce, 1984
Shapiro, Alan, 1971
Tacha, Athena, 1971
Tucker, Professor F.G., 1948, 1955

Series VI. Instructional and Student Files

Box 1

Academic Advising, 1949-1973 (2f)
Astronomy, 1956-1981, n.d. (15f)
Color Lecture, 1960
Danenberg Oberlin-in-London Program, Spring 1985

Box 2

Demonstration Lecture Outlines, 1948 (2f)
Diagrams, n.d.
Electrometer Amplifier, n.d.
Essay Topics, 1950-1965
Experiments and Notes, n.d.
Grades, 1955-1981, n.d. *
Grade Books, 1970-1983 (9f) *
Graduate Schools, 1966-1968
Honor Committee, re: Students of David Anderson, 1980-1981 *
Howlers, n.d.
Human Development Program, 1973
Lab Apparatus for e/m, n.d.
Lab Manuals, 1952-1955 (4f)

Box 3

Lab Manual, 1961
Labs, 1952-1983, n.d. (2f)
Mechanical Design, n.d.
Methods of Inquiry, 1980-1981
Misc. Physics Courses, 1949-1980, n.d.
Miscellany, 1956-1984, n.d.
Notes on Spectroscopy, 1964-1965
Observatory Photographs, n.d.
Overheads and Photographs, n.d.
Physics Courses, 1952-1968 (4f)

Box 4

Physics Courses, 1949, 1970-1988, n.d. (13f)

Box 5

Physics Courses, 1973-1980, n.d. (11f)

Box 6

Physics Courses, 1972-1985, n.d. (5f)
Reading Courses, 1964
Recommendations, 1957-1984, n.d. (4f) *
Recommendations for Medical School, 1966-1968 *
Science, Technology, and Society Program Proposal, 1972-1973
Seminars, 1953-1975, n.d.
Shakespeare, 1978-1979
Student Evaluations, 1967, 1985-1986 (3f)

Box 7

Student Information Forms, n.d.
Students' Book Reviews, 1960
Students' Exams, 1985-86, 1988 (5f) *
Students' Outlines, 1953, 1956, 1959 (2f)
Students' Papers, 1951-1973, n.d. (2f) *

Box 8

Students' Papers, 1956-1986 (4f) *
"Tempest in the Age of Shakespeare," 1978-1979
Washington University Program, 1975-1978
Winter Term, 1967-1984 (5f)
X-Ray Case History, 1952-1953

Series VII. Ministerial Files

Subseries 1. General

Box 1

Bishop of Ohio, 1954-1957
Canonical Examinations, 1955-1956
Christ Episcopal Church, 1952-1983, n.d. (2f)
Christian Faith and Action, 1979-1980
The Christian Scholar, 1959-1962
Christianity and Education, 1950-1960
Christianity and Science, 1953-1976
Church Pension Fund, 1954-1956
Church Society for College Work, 1944, 1960-1966 (2f)
Clippings, 1962
College Work Census, Diocese of Ohio, 1957-1958
College Work Commission, 1957-1966
Conferences, 1956-1982, n.d. (4f)
Correspondence, 1948-1993, n.d. (3f)

Box 2

Crommett, Rev. Eugene E., D.Th. Thesis, 1959-1960
Faculty Christian Fellowship, 1960
Laymen's Training, 1951-1953
Miscellaneous Pamphlets, n.d.
Miscellany, 1942-1980, n.d.
National Study Conference, 1959-1964 (2f)
Notes, 1982, n.d.
Ordination Correspondence, 1956
Rector, 1956
St. Paul's University Nuclear Reactor, 1958-1959
Services, Special, 1941-66, 1970-86 (2f)
Speaking Engagements, 1948-1968 (4f)
Stained Glass in Christ Episcopal Church, n.d.
Sunday School, 1951

Subseries 2. Chapel Talks and Sermons

Box 1

Canonical Sermons, 1954
Chapel Talks (at Oberlin College), 1953-1966 (2f)
Sermons, 1956-1991, n.d. (10f)

Series VIII. Miscellaneous Professional Files

Box 1

Alumni Seminar, 1959
Audio Learning, 1981-1982
Birmingham Paper, 1953
Consulting, 1951-1980, n.d. (3f)
Copyrights, 1963
Eastman Kodak, 1939-1940
Harvard Summer School, 1951-1960 (3f)
Humanities Lecture, 1941-1954
Miscellany, 1946-1987, n.d.
National Science Foundation, 1967-1969
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1966-1977 (11f)

Box 2

Notes, n.d. (7f)
Oberlin College (job offer and evaluations), 1948-1984 (2f)
Ohio Academy of Science Meeting, 1961
Pomona College Conference, 1962-1963
Professional Opportunities, 1948-1974 (4f)
Professional Societies, 1940-1948, 1977
Research Corporation/St. Andrew's College, 1967

Box 3

Sabbaticals, 1953-54, 1960-62, 1967-69, 1972-73 (4f)
Science and Religion, n.d.
Speeches and Miscellaneous Presentations, 1958-1981, n.d. (8f)
Visiting Scientists Program, 1962-1967

Series IX. Writings File

Subseries 1. Book Reviews

Box 1

Book Reviews, 1962-1984, n.d. (4f)

Subseries 2. Articles

Box 1

AAPT Paper, 1959
"Applications of a Small Radium-Beryllium Neutron Source in the Undergraduate Laboratory," 1951-1952, n.d.
Letters to the Editor, (Time, The Living Church, Christian Century, The Ohio Christian News, Physics Today, Nature, Carnegie Quarterly), 1947-1972, n.d.
The Merits and Limitations of Science," David Anderson, moderator, 1954
Misc. articles by David Anderson, 1955-1981, n.d. "Radioactive Xenon…," ca. 1950 (2f)
Reinhold's Encyclopedia of Physics, "The Electron," 1964-1973
"Religiosity and the Egghead," 1957
Resource Letter, 1963-1966, n.d. (3f)

Subseries 3. Books/Studies/Thesis

Box 1

Arno Press Correspondence, re: reprints of monographs, 1977-1980
Contracts, n.d.
Discovery of Nuclear Fission, 1964-1971, 1976, n.d. (9f)

Box 2

Discovery of Nuclear Fission, n.d. (2f)
Discovery of the Electron, 1961-1966, n.d. (7f)

Box 3

Discovery of the Electron, c. 1964 (12f)

Box 4

Discovery of the Electron, 1964 (2f)
Harvard Project Physics, 1964-1969 (17f)

Box 5

Harvard Project Physics, 1964-1971 (4f)

Box 6

Harvard Project Physics, 1966-1967, 1971 (8f)

Box 7

"The Neutrino," 1979, n.d. (3f)
"Newton and Theology," n.d.
"On the Methods of Science," n.d.
"Some Radioactive Xenon Isotopes" (Anderson's Thesis), 1950
"Solution of the Equations of Stellar Structure…," 1964

Series X. Drawings and Photographs

Box 1

Drawings, n.d.
D.L. Anderson, n.d.
Los Alamos/WWII, ca. 1940s
Oberlin Scientists, 1948-49 [2002/054]
Physics Building, n.d.
Physics Department, n.d.
Retirement Dinner, 1990
Miscellaneous and Unidentified, 1937, n.d.

Box 2

Filmstrip - "The Oberlin General Council, 1948"

 
 
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